I plan on it.....I was going for my fist slam last summer and my fun was interrupted by reality when I found myself on a rock that a copperhead wanted really bad.....I let him have the rock, but it was after I broke my rod trying to defend myself and poking at him to slow him down from his charge at me. That day I got a new St. Croix Rod, completed my first slam, and learned a lesson in caution and vulnerability (I am glad nobody was around when the snake showed up, cause I screamed like a 7th grade girl at a Justin Timberlake Concert )